The forces of scarcity hitting Asia may soon spread across the world Many countries across the region are experiencing sudden jolts of disruption that they are struggling to manage.

Economic and social impacts of the U.S-Israeli war on Iran have hit Asia harder and faster than officials or experts expected. | via @nytimes.com

Palantir's summary of CEO Alexander Karp's manifesto is generating buzz. Read the 22 bullet points. Among the 22 points summarizing Palantir CEO Alex Karp's manifesto is the belief that the US should consider reinstating the military draft.

This company is out of control and its CEO appears in nearly every public appearance to be disturbed in some way.

There are companies our government should have nothing to do with anymore—e.g., those associated with Elon Musk—and Palantir is on that list.

Giorgia Meloni hit by backlash over migrant ‘repatriation bonus’ for lawyers Proposal to pay advocates who persuade irregular migrants to leave Italy has provoked outcry

Dearie me.

How long before Farage starts spouting Meloni’s daft proposal - to pay immigration lawyers (who’s rôle is to represent their clients’ interests) a €615 bonus for every irregular immigrant that they can persuade to leave the country

Legally ethics? Pah!

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Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Today we remember the horrific tragedy of the Columbine shooting. 27 years later, it is a disgrace that gun violence is still the leading cause of death for children in America.

BREAKING: 86% of all people support the release of the Epstein files, per WaPo poll.

How can Americans live with such nightmares frequently happening? How? To Europeans, this is unimaginable.

2 dead, 5 hurt after planned fight leads to mass shooting at Winston-Salem park Two people have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced.

Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻‍♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...

The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could shut LGBTQ+ families out of preschool The case out of Colorado centers on whether taxpayer-funded preschools affiliated with churches can refuse to admit children of LGBTQ+ couples.

NEWS: The Supreme Court is going to find a way to make it so that LGBTQ+ taxpayers will have their money sent to an institution that can legally reject their kid, won't it?

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I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career

Term limits!

ICE detained the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army Sgt. First Class after she showed up for an immigration appointment in 📍 El Paso—then still threatened removal despite legal protections.

Her husband (27 years active duty) said it plainly: ICE is out of control.

Russia screams “disinformation” at the UN while burying its own dead.

Amb. Melnyk:

- 30–35K Russian troops lost every month. Recruitment failing.

Cash incentives no longer enough.

This is not strength.

It’s attrition masked as propaganda.
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He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

Rep. Pat Ryan: "The fact that the president did not understand that closing the strait would be the obvious and immediate leverage point for the Iranians just shows how out of depth they are in initiating this war."

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:

When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

EU ‘right to repair’ laws may save millions of phones from landfill Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.

EU ‘right to repair’ law

The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.

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Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

Who profits the most from Trump's #IranWarFiasco
Trump is making Russia & China GREAT!
The world now sees him as "untrustworthy & chaotic, if not insane"
He has embarrassed US all & rendered America impotent as a force for good
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Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

Khanna to Maria Bartiromo: "Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. Obama actually did his homework ... all Donald Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's his entire foreign policy."

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Kennedy Center whistleblower tells all on SHADY Trump admin takeover, $2 million seats near Trump YouTube video by MS NOW

Josef Palermo, a Kennedy Center insider, joins Nicolle to detail the damage he witnessed at the historic institution following its takeover by the Trump administration. @nicollewallace.bsky.social

News headline from The Guardian: Trump administration Trump energy secretary says gas prices might not drop back under $3 a gallon until 2027

Today is a fine day to remind everyone that Donald Trump campaigned aggressively on promises to lower gasoline prices during his run for the presidency in 2024. They included assurances he'd lower those prices below $2 a gallon.

The big gas price slider on the Resolute Desk must be malfunctioning.

Letter: Hungary’s reckoning with Orbán has finally begun Letter to the editor

From entrenched power to crushing defeat in one election.
What changed in Hungary?
A sharp letter from Cambridge Szeged Society chair Julia Seiber Boyd traces the long build-up to Orbán’s fall.

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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

Ahead of midterms, Trump’s DOJ is targeting voting in three of the most pivotal swing-state counties "They're basically acknowledging they got nothing," one elections expert said. "It's going to be used for propaganda and PR. And DOJ's law enforcement powers aren't supposed to be used for propaganda ...

With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week demanding 2024 election records from Wayne County, Michigan, the Trump administration is now aggressively targeting the voting process in perhaps the country’s three most pivotal voting jurisdictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...